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5 天前It’s the most powerful tool in our arsenal. And it’s just sitting right at our feet. But we just won’t pick it up. I don’t get it.
General strike now.
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6·5 天前How much of that is because every single time it’s brought up, without fail, the immediate reaction is “it’ll never happen.”
How much are we self defeating by being convinced by conditioning that collective action just isn’t feasible?
It’s only not feasible because so many people firmly believe it’s not. This is the most powerful tool in the system’s arsenal: our own surety that we will never act.
It’s literally the one and only thing that holds us back
Why does this cats coat make it look like there’s another smaller cat on their back
1121·6 天前Wow we moved from the “first they came for the…” to “and then they came for me” in 60 seconds flat.
Remember the time this fuck sprayed hair on his head
lol “face prison”
I wouldn’t bank on it
Well, yeah. There are two Black men and—gasp! A WOMAN!
BURN THE WOKE!!
Tony Blair?? Why is that asshat’s name back in the zeitgeist?
I mean, GTA V is the most profitable piece of media/entertainment ever created in human history. it’s not that obscure
Did you guys know Fred durst now runs a jazz club or something like that?
Lol the day Schumer calls for a general strike I’ll donate all my existing money to his campaign.
Read: never
Listen to the voice, look at the videos, it’s clearly AI
So gay marriage is out, what else will they be hearing this session? It’s gonna get so much worse, I’m sure.
This is all true. But my point is, we have to start somewhere. And politicians are an okay place to start. But they can’t be where we end. They are a small piece of the puzzle. But when we bring defeatism to every single part of the equation, before we try anything in earnest, then no one will ever get anywhere and things will continue to get worse and worse. We need our generations stepping up, and as much as it pains me to say, that includes politicians. We can’t trust them any further than they can be thrown, but they are still a part of the solution that we need.
Have you ever tried suggesting other parts of the solution? Strikes, collective action, mutual aid, etc? Because any time anything more than a weekend march gets suggested, people always, always, always sound a lot like your first comment where they just start listing reasons they can’t work or will be foiled. Why is that? We are conditioned by a lifetime of the system telling us it’s inevitable and everlasting. But it’s not the only way, and we need to start moving toward a different way. That starts somewhere, and if wherever it starts is poo-poo’ed at the first suggestion, then we are beyond fucked. We need momentum, and once it starts, it will seem like it was always going to go that way. So let’s let it start naturally, without the defeatism literally before we even get started righting the ship.
“We have to climb this mountain.”
“But look at that rock, and that stumbling block, and imagine how tired you will get before you can get up there! And look at your shoes, you’re not going to make it in those shoes. You’ll get blisters, and you’ll be sooo thirsty!”
Etc. etc. See my point?
Germany, Israel, Brazil, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Philippines…need we go on?
But why is there such this defeatist attitude any time someone remotely not terrible tries to do something? It’s like we’re doing the fascists work for them with talk like this. I get that fuckery happens any time someone kinda different or kinda maybe good (for a politician) steps up, but that can be overcome with more support. When the margins are thin, it’s easy for them to cheat. When they aren’t, it’s fucking not. So let’s stop making the margins tighter with this kind of talk
You think with trump and his sycophants and handlers would be willingly parading around their younger, hopeful replacement? “Strongmen” will lie and obfuscate the truth because the lie works. Look how long they’ve managed to get his followers to believe he’s just a virile and Uber healthy, fearless leader. They won’t shove the wet mop with eyes that is JD Vance into the role until they absolutely have no other options. Look all throughout history, these types of fascists have to project strength even when it’s clear they’re old, decrepit and on the edge of death.